skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something that I don't think you will be able to understand until you have tried it enough to see what others see in it. There are many activities like that.

The point of focusing on breathing is not to do the breathing in place of your automatic breathing. It is to pay attention to that automatic breathing.

Contemplating the central limit theorem is a complex activity. Where does contemplation of that truly end? It is easy to follow the mind's natural tendency to become distracted. You think about related math. You think about your math professor that first talked about it. You think about unrelated math. You think about practical applications.

The breath is simple. You observe the breath going in and out. When your mind it on something else, you return it to the breath. Over and over. You don't have to consider anything: if you attend to something other than the sensation of the breath, you've wandered off.
I went to a 4 year university for a CS degree. The school is rated in the top 10 for CS undergrad degrees. I did a co-op (basically interning every other semester with the same company) to get work experience.

I didn't have any open source contributions, nor did some of my friends. I know some of my friends launched websites and start ups for experience, and that worked for them to get jobs. I don't have enough anecdotal data to tell you one way is better than the other, it's really your choice on how to get recognized, and what to get recognized for.

HN more than most will probably tell you not to go to college. If you want to join a big company, you'll need the college degree eventually. Depending on the company, they'll let you in on the ground floor, and perhaps pay for it, which a perk for you. Or you can work while you study to earn money to pay for school so you don't graduate with heavy debt. In any case, I saw some great advise here regarding colleges. "If you choose not to go to school, you still have to put in the same amount of work." I think that very aptly sums it up.

Breadth or depth depends on whether your goals are to be a subject matter expert, or more of a high level architect, dare I say manager. I work with very intelligent people who get hard problems solved, but not all of them can see the forest through the trees. I'm choosing the former, because I can apply my pieces of knowledge to fit the puzzle pieces together to provide solutions.
No, no no, a thousand times no. The problem with this scheme is that we lose all that juicy parse-ability and addressability that make the internet so useful and powerful.

Let's face it: the open web is a terrible environment to program in. It is messy and arcane and difficult. But some of this difficulty is not acidental complexity. Some of it is the price we pay for writing apps who's outputs and interfaces are themselves addressable, mutable, and usable.

If apps were to become big opaque blobs of binaries again, yes, they would be easier to program. But is that good for us, or good for the world? What is the long-term cost of making the web?

The promise of real, globally shared coding environments is only just starting to get some legs with tools like jsfiddle revolutionizing the way we solve programming problems together. I can't really share Java code of any complexity with people and be assured that they will be run in a suitable context. The path to creating an environment, compiling and executing Java is intense, and jsFiddle literally eliminates all of that work for the people I want to see my code. Learning the quirks of the open web is a small price to pay for that super-power.

And let me also say that there is still plenty of accidental complexity to eliminate! In particular, servers have been doing far too much for far too long, and once they start doing what they are good at and only what they are good at (which is partitioning the sum total of your information into discrete URL-addressable resources) we will all breath a huge sigh of relieve, and focus on the real problem. (Which is, of course, the monstrosity that is CSS).
It is dickish of you to suggest that the repetition is to cover up a falsehood. You can question without being hostile.
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What the article said (badly) is that companies like Canonical have to comply with the law, so any information you give them is something that can be required to hand over. Consequently minimize what you give them, for example by not letting them see Unity searches.
This would make for a great election stats website displaying live sentiment analysis.

EDIT: Even better if you could even annotate each point with the most tweeted quote.
cat: "eeeeexxcellent!"
Lazy terminology is better known as "inaccurate communication" or simply "bad writing." Ironically enough, writing good English (or whatever language one uses) is just as important, if not more so, than writing good code when it comes to building software.
> Who here cringes every time they hear "personal brands"?

Some professors really do have "brands". How do you think George Church has his hands in so many companies?
On the other hand it doesn't explain why they didn't look at another orbit that they did have enough fuel for. Was this a decision that had to be made immediately?
There are tens of thousands of horror stories like yours in multiple tech and IM discussion forums i kid you not.
Just because they're not iterating in the dev-oriented U.S.-centric C2B space, the least profitable and easiest to solve payment spaces, doesn't mean they aren't innovating. To put things in perspective JANA, arguably the largest payment platform in the world by users, is virtually unknown in Silicon Valley.
It would help to read what I was replying to, and what I was actually replying:

GP said: "Juice is for most intents and purposes no healthier dan soda."

You said: "There is absolutely no evidence to support the notion that pop is any worse for you than a fruit juice of similar acidity and caloric content."

I said: "There is no evidence of difference", which is exactly what you said.

Can you spot the difference between yourself and GP, though? One is an assertion; the other is an assertion of no evidence against said assertion.

> "You don't evolve to do anything"

We clearly don't speak the same language. What do you mean by that? I breathe; did I not evolve to breathe?

Where did I state that everything "natural is good" or that anything "artificial is bad"? Who and what are you arguing with?
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The size of the field, is it fixed or growing? I guess, if it is fixed, this implementation still needs some work...

Either way, I think that Turing Machine with infinitely growing stacks [see http://rendell-attic.org/gol/fullutm/index.htm] is a way cooler.
Sorry about that, just added a link!
Very neat, I just had a few minor issues with needing to click some thumbnails twice to get the picture to display correctly. With that one issue aside, I think this is a pretty slick way to display photos and might use it myself to display vacation pics or something similar.
It's worth playing around with - I would definitely like to have the image fill as much of the space as possible.
This would cover all businesses.Therefore it does not aid in finding a proper defination of the term
This action against violentacrez seems nasty and vitriolic.

His only "crime" in the article is moderating/posting non-nude pictures of teenage girls -- while removing actual nude pictures of the same.

This is not an actual crime and while society discourages non-nude pictures of teenage girls -- as it forms part of an unofficial no-go zone between adult pornography and pedophilia -- there are whole industries (modelling, beauty pageants, pop singers) that thrive doing exactly this to 16 year old girls.

So Adrian Chen is creeped out by a legal behavior and decides to defame someone who is -- on all other apparent metrics -- a positive, diligent member of a number of communities. Additionally, Chen has heaped shame and entirely fictional guilt (since there's no crime) on this person to the point where he feels he needs to withdraw.

Chen seems like the troll here.
a friend and i do small web businesses (not together). First year we both did some seo to push traffic, when we realized that wasn't working we started ppc and that's how we bring food home
It would be easier to prove his troll-ness if he didn't delete his account, but he was definitely a troll as well as a free speech advocate. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's not a crime.
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This is probably why talking politics is frowned upon here. I appreciate your perspective, and I especially appreciate your civility, but I don't think we can go further in this venue.
"The only entity that got screwed was the insurance company,"

Unlikely they got screwed over. Insurance money doesn't come out of thin air. Insurance companies charge a premium for coverage and that premium usually goes up after a coverage event to make up for the increased risk. Insurance companies very rarely get screwed over.
Like a Reddit for selfstarter projects, but the up votes are pledges.
The paper linked to, and the tech report its based on, provide exactly that - an experimental analysis of sorting and branch predictors. Both are available at http://paulbiggar.com/research/#sorting.
Jonathan Haidt, the author of one of my favorite books, "The Happiness Hypothesis," points out–based on extensive research–that there are only three ways to change "automatic reactions" to circumstances like a flooded kitchen...meditation, cognitive therapy, and Prozac. Meditation is an inexpensive and natural alternative to the other two, it's been around for thousands of years and there are no negative side effects.
That seems like a pretty elegant solution.
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(while I was writing this you edited out your disagreement with the word "troll" but I'll leave this)

The definition of "troll" includes someone who posts inflammatory material (text, images or otherwise).

Doesn't have to be illegal, just inflammatory.

Certainly you agree he is inflammatory, you just think he has the right to be?

I don't think the "everyone else does it" argument flies either.

I don't think doxxing people is right but that doesn't make what he did right either.
The full story is over on Gawker, the Atlantic article is just a summary that assumes you already know who this dude is.

http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...
Ive been working with a personal coach recently and at the start of each session we start with a guided 2-3 minutes of mediation practice.
One way to do on your own is with mp3's and doing on your own. Really from my personal experience thats not expert driven at all, even doing 5 minutes a day before you day starts is a great way to start for weeks or months on end.
Just those 5 minutes of calm and awareness can do a lot, it has for me.
How much do you make an hour?
This is simply incorrect. There are many different types of meditation with many different types of goals.

Some meditation disciplines involve slowing the breath down, while others involve speeding the breath up (research Breath of Fire). Some meditation disciplines involve quieting the mind and ignoring stimuli, while others involve opening the floodgates of sensation to more fully experience stimuli (research Vipassana).

The reality is that almost no single person can say what is and is not meditation because meditation comes in many different forms, in many different traditions, from many different sources.

Anyone who arrogates to him or herself the authority to say what is and is not meditation is regrettably mistaken.
The problem was you cannot link to gawker from HN submissions, it's banned here too.

And apparently there is a new moderation mode that removes/prevents articles from being on the front page, because that just happened too.
why there is 'reddit' in the title?
Not that I'm defending violentacrez, but to say that he fears reprisal does not mean he did anything wrong.

It's really hard to get a clear picture, because I'm not familiar with violentacrez's ouvre, but being painted as a child pornographer would probably hurt most people's career.

I've seen r/jailbait. It was creepy, but as another commenter points out, not more creepy than most child/teen beauty pageants. I think because it's on a strange + ungoverned corner of the internet, it was easily painted as illegal when it was only very creepy.
I hope googling "todo list" do not show to do list on google result page, that had make me go out of business.
This will be far far more damaging to Samsung than a $1 billion settlement from the patent settlement, as Apple has been buying several billion dollars worth of parts per year.
pg and pmarca (so cool that you comment on HN, looking forward to your first submission) hit it on the head.

Regulatory uncertainty can cause difficulties investing in certain sectors that might prove quite profitable.

Lastly, I would note that profitability as an isolated metric is not a perfect indicator of future success. I can find a link if people are interested, but in his latest book Robert Shiller discusses firms that created some special financial products in the late 90s. The products were effectively betting on black swan events happening at a certain time. They ensured a high annual IRR but then if the event didn't occur their investors were left holding the bag. What made the idea profitable for the firms was that LPs that invested in years 4-6 did so based on IRR, without examining things in detail and effectively overpaid for a piece.
relevant> http://www.yelp.com/biz/california-typewriter-berkeley
Last I looked, insurance premiums on spaceflight were on the order of 20-25% of insured value of the payload. So if it were a $10 million payout Orbcomm probably paid out 2 million in insurance pre launch.
Perfectly clear that PR best practices were adhered to in an admirably strict fashion - show beautiful pictures of apparent success on live video, bury the part where the satellite burns up until after hours on a Friday!
Virtual machine, not framework. Flex would be a framework though.
Please send me an email with regards to the issues with the builtwith data, I'd be happy to identify the false positives to ensure they are not in your reports. Thanks!
David Musser's (author of Introsort) paper "A Portable Cache Profiler Based on Source-Level Instrumentation"[1] looks at the cache behavior for Intro, Merge, and Heapsort in it's examples section. Not directly correlated, but possibly interesting nonetheless.

[1] http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/gp/PCP.pdf
Well, I accept the criticism.

I grew up knowing actual fresh squeezed orange juice as "orange juice", and everything else as "orange beverage" (well, an equivalent translation in my native language).

But I realize that, since I moved to the US, I haven't actually had anything that tastes like real Orange Juice. Regardless of what it says on the package or what the waiter says.
5% is the amount of business Apple provides is what I've heard. No idea how accurate, but if it is even close, I imagine some of the companies TSMC won't be able to handle due to contracts or just workload will flip to Samsung. So maybe not all that much of a loss to be rid of someone that is quite happy to stab them in the back whenever they have the chance.
The important thing is iGoogle was killed off.
This reminds me of Schiller's abandonment of Instagram after they ported to Android. Strange to see such an influential and successful company acting in such a childishly vindictive manner.
Neat, just what I had in mind - powered by Stripe. Fee looks a bit steep though.
Yes. https://developers.betable.com/#why-its-legal
That can be my next tweet
The expression is not meant as proof that you're on the track to winning, it's meant to encourage you if you're currently being ignored.

Sure, being ignored is part of the losing process but it's also part of the winning process. Don't get discouraged just because you're being ignored.
In looking at this a bit further, it seems that the reliability of the Falcon 9 is not looking so good. It has only flown four times and suffered single engine shutdowns on two of them (the other: http://www.spacenews.com/civil/spacex-acknowledges-falcon-en...). See also: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=9044.

Simple probability then gives a failure rate of 3%. I have not attempted the Bayesian analysis.
Yeah, sorry about that. I contradicted my own first sentence, so I removed it. The article did clarify how "troll" applied in this case.
For those saying hes a normal guy who just likes trolling, the article mentions "Michael Brutsch had sex with his step daughter"

He was also the creator of subreddits that dealt with glorifying beating women and children. He has 100% of the right to live on the line and be a griefer and/or troll. He also has 100% of the right to feel the wrath of people he pisses off.

As a internet free speech advocate, I am sad that things are in this situation. As a parent and decent human being, I am not. He is surely on many FBI lists now.
I had terrible tooth decay when I was younger (I have 16 fillings from ages 10-20). And then, all of a sudden - nothing. I haven't had a hole or a problem since (except for a filling that broke and had to be replaced). There was nothing that I'm aware of that I changed around that time -- I stopped drinking sodas and eating junk food around age 30.

But I have recently read claims (and testimonials) that what you need for healthy teeth is Vitamin D (make sure you take it in the morning if you do!) and Vitamin K2, see e.g. http://www.thedentalessentials.com/The_role_of_vitamin_k2_on... ; If you find this interesting, you'll find a lot more similar stuff on the bulletproof executive forums.
Uh,

It's not like Apple's been just giving Samsung billions each year. I don't know Samsung's margin on the sales but it would seem they'd be looking at loosing several hundred million in profit if they can't find another buyer for the chips. But maybe they can make up for the lost demand so other way.
I'd be curious to see a similar plot of average internet speed vs time.
> So Adrian Chen is creeped out by a legal behavior

This is a conflation of "illegal behavior" with "creepy behavior", but they are distinct categories.

> there are whole industries [...] that thrive doing exactly this to 16 year old girls.

It is not relevant that other people engage in similar behavior.

> So Adrian Chen is creeped out by a legal behavior and decides to defame someone

Defamation need not be false. (If it were false you could call it "slander" or "libel".) Again, this is conflation of illegal behavior with creepy behavior; there are lots of legal creepy things and lots of illegal things that aren't creepy.

> entirely fictional guilt (since there's no crime)

Conflation of meanings of the word guilt, which has a legal definition as well as a common definition. I could be "guilty" of standing a girl up on a date even though it's perfectly legal to do so.
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Hope that in-house chips work out better than in-house maps.
Vindictive it might be, but childish it is not. I really think Apple has to get away from the dependency on Samsung; it needs to partner with a company that doesn't have the potential of taking advantage of Apple's product roadmap.

I cannot believe that people don't talk between Samsung's mobile division and their semi-conductor fabrication business (regardless of NDAs). I think being Apple's supplier and themselves being in the business of making phones and tablets, has worked to Samsung's advantage.

That being said, I think Samsung is a really powerful company and they'll be able to hold their own (i.e. revenues from product sales etc.) without Apple's business.
A group of communications satellites have to be deployed in a synchronized way, to continuously cover the area they target. Changing the orbit of this satellite would mean changing the orbits of the other 16 satellites as well. Also I'm pretty sure you have to license a particular orbit ahead of time instead of just picking whatever is convenient at the moment.
Kickstarter was/is shooting for the investor-style model.

The problem is that people were viewing it as a store. People were getting pissed off when they gave money to a scam, to an individual who couldn't handle the explosive demand, et cetera.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on recruiting?
What are your thoughts on tech recruiters and how do you think the recruiting industry needs to change?
What makes you think only the bottom 3% get shown the door in during lay offs?

In fact from my experience, the guys with most political contacts inside the companies generally get the most security.
And, correspondingly, a plot of Google homepage HTML file size divided by average internet speed vs time, so we wouldn’t have to compare the two curves in our heads.
Not yet, another year.
http://www.google.com/ig
in this case it's octal in action. leading 0 causes the libc calls to expect non-decimal input (octal or hex, depending on what comes next).

a few organizations, FWIW, insist on writing decimal dotted quads zero padded (e.g. 192.168.19.20 becomes 192.168.019.020) for evan formatting. this barfs various tools and scripts that (not surprisingly) expect octal if they see a leading 0 and then barf on the non-octal-ness of the data OR get it wrong.

something to be aware of, especially if you script batch processing of inputs that include lists of IPs.
Hard Landing for University Endowments?
>> iterating the platform.

Small companies with small user base predominantly dominated by power technology users can do that.

Its a little unfair to compare a start up with large corp in these issues. The right time will be when stripe will be as big as PayPal is now.
How to use ec2 with cheapest price
Just use spot instance.

http://174.129.248.236:8080/index.html

this site shows the price gap between spot instance and heavy reserved instance.
and if you want to get the source
just visit http://github.com/charsyam/cheapec2

this is just a small idea.
I always enjoyed this interesting story:

One vigilante sent Google an anonymous email every so often just listing a number, like 37 or 43. Eventually Mayer and her colleagues figured out it referred to the number of words on the Google homepage—the implication being that someone was keeping track, so don't screw up the design

– The Google Story
It depends on the university. As some others have mentioned it will probably come up with some depth in operating systems. It is kind of hard to avoid in OS. I don't think it's uncommon to have a course with a bit of a focus on this kind of stuff either. You might also hit it in a networking course, though it can be avoided there.

Learning the basics on your own isn't too difficult though. Writing a single threaded web service, a forking web service, and a multi-threaded web service is a little project you can do. Ideally the processes would need to share memory or communicate with one another some way.
Probably that's the reason why keyboards today are almost of the same layout.

So many alternatives have been proposed but they are no way even close to replacing the qwerty layout.
would be interesting to compare this to world wide typical and average bandwidth availability.

google used to prize page load times for their search landing page. i wonder if the increase is coming about because they recognize they can indeed get away with it and maintain their performance goals, or if they re-shifted priorities and/or acceptable values for load times.
They are using smooth time integration, where I am using the discrete scheme described in the arxiv paper. The switch isn't that difficult though, since it just involves modifying a single line of the shader.
It gets cached so it's okay.
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